This entry from Monogram Pictures Range Buster series finds Dusty King, Davy Sharpe and Max Terhune replete with dummy sidekick Elmer and late of The Three Mesquiteers battling enemy aliens and spies from Texas To Bataan and back. You can hardly believe that the movie-going public even in those times took pictures like this seriously.
Marjorie Manners sends for the Range Busters to help at her father Steve Clark's ranch where all kinds of strange things are happening. Clark has a contract to deliver horses to the army in the Phillipines and the boys have to battle fifth columnists on the home front. Then after making delivery of the horses to Bataan they find evidence of the real spy leader who is back in Texas of course.
By the time this horse opera came out the Phillipines had already fallen and MacArthur was in Australia vowing that 'I shall return'. Not on horseback though. In reading about the Phillipine campaign before the fall of Corregidor and the return in 1944 I don't recall reading about any horses. Certainly if those poor animals from Texas actually made it to the Phillipines they probably were eaten by the starving troops on Bataan.
It staggers me watching some of the vintage World War II era films especially from the Poverty Row studios what claptrap they were peddling to the public. Texas To Bataan is some of the finest vintage claptrap I've ever seen from that era.
Marjorie Manners sends for the Range Busters to help at her father Steve Clark's ranch where all kinds of strange things are happening. Clark has a contract to deliver horses to the army in the Phillipines and the boys have to battle fifth columnists on the home front. Then after making delivery of the horses to Bataan they find evidence of the real spy leader who is back in Texas of course.
By the time this horse opera came out the Phillipines had already fallen and MacArthur was in Australia vowing that 'I shall return'. Not on horseback though. In reading about the Phillipine campaign before the fall of Corregidor and the return in 1944 I don't recall reading about any horses. Certainly if those poor animals from Texas actually made it to the Phillipines they probably were eaten by the starving troops on Bataan.
It staggers me watching some of the vintage World War II era films especially from the Poverty Row studios what claptrap they were peddling to the public. Texas To Bataan is some of the finest vintage claptrap I've ever seen from that era.